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Scientists prove that fish suffer "intense pain" for at least 10 minutes after catch, calls made for reforms

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    #21

    The 2 trillion figure is the minimum: it could be more than 6 trillion every year, and the elephant in the room is that more than half of those are factory farmed - which means humans are responsible for torturing them their entire lives.

    "for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka" - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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      How would you ethically kill fish? For animals you could raise them to be old and live decent lives in a free range area and kill them with a stunner, but what about fishes?

      Also, what are some good alternatives to fishes for your diet?

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      • omegalemmy@discuss.onlineO [email protected]

        How would you ethically kill fish? For animals you could raise them to be old and live decent lives in a free range area and kill them with a stunner, but what about fishes?

        Also, what are some good alternatives to fishes for your diet?

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        Can you ethically kill your dog when they want to live?

        You can make fish alternatives with carrots, tofu, jackfruit, seitan, oyster king mushrooms, chickpeas, tempeh, anti choke.

        https://proveg.com/uk/fish-alternatives-10-vegan-substitutes-to-fish-caviar-and-other-seafood/

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        • W [email protected]

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell_of_freshly_cut_grass

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          Ah so stepping on kittens is the same thing as stepping on grass. Great logic…

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            You're going to have a difficult time cutting through others' cognitive dissonance. Humor, distancing, false-equivalence, and sarcasm... Are all refuge from the discomfort of being indifferent at best, or outright complicit. If people could start accepting it's just sad.

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            I wish more people were mature enough to look at truth straight in the face.

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            • tonytonychopper@mander.xyzT [email protected]

              Fuck it. I'm becoming an autotroph.

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              Or you can just eat a plant-based diet that’s actually viable.

              https://veganuary.com/en-ca/

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                OK, but can we solve everyone elses before we even think about yours and anyone related to you?

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                Haha I love this response. Force this person to grow their own food because the farmers have more important people to feed.

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                  Come on, you can do better.

                  On the wikipedia page you linked, there is exactly zero occurrence of the word "pain".
                  The only part that could remotely be linked to your previous argument does not indicate pain at all.

                  The GLVs responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass play a role in plant communication and plant defence against herbivory, functioning as a distress signal warning other plants of imminent danger and, in some instances, as a way to attract predators of grass-eating insects.

                  This paragraph is a less sensational and more serious reformulation of the source material, an opinion piece stating the following without a single scientific reference

                  Trauma, that’s what. It’s the smell of chemical defenses and first aid. The fresh, “green” scent of a just-mowed lawn is the lawn trying to save itself from the injury you just inflicted.

                  This piece was posted in May 2012 on mentalfloss.com, so not really a scientific study.

                  Also, nothing in there speaks of the brocoli, which you first referred to.

                  Edit: spelling, formatting

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                  Dude doesn’t even look at usernames. 🤡

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                    OP has provided scientific evidence, feel free to do the same to support your claim - I'd wager this is gonna be hard.

                    And apologies if there was a /s I missed somewhere, I'm quite sensitive about this topic.

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                    It’s pretty well known that plants don’t just passively endure damage—they communicate chemically with each other through the air or root systems.

                    Here are two examples:

                    Acacia Trees

                    When attacked, the tree releases ethylene gas into the air. Nearby acacia trees detect this gas and respond by increasing tannin production in their leaves, making them bitter and potentially toxic to herbivores. This chemical warning system helps protect not just one tree, but others nearby as well.

                    Tomato Plants

                    When attacked by pests like caterpillars, tomato plants release VOCs (such as methyl jasmonate). Nearby tomato plants “smell” this and preemptively activate their own defenses, such as producing chemicals that deter insects or attract predatory wasps.

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                    • omegalemmy@discuss.onlineO [email protected]

                      How would you ethically kill fish? For animals you could raise them to be old and live decent lives in a free range area and kill them with a stunner, but what about fishes?

                      Also, what are some good alternatives to fishes for your diet?

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                      you can't kill ethically a fish, cow, pig, dog, etc.

                      sometimes there are "humane" times you have to kill, for some reason, another animal, because they are really suffering and it's impossible to bring them to health.
                      anything else, is unnecessary.

                      There are a lot of alternatives for a plant based diet, and being healthy, you have to be informed to know what to eat, and with which thing combine it (rice and beans, together, are a complete protein).
                      there is tofu, seitan, different types of grains and legumes that are protein complete or that you can complete between them

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                      • omegalemmy@discuss.onlineO [email protected]

                        How would you ethically kill fish? For animals you could raise them to be old and live decent lives in a free range area and kill them with a stunner, but what about fishes?

                        Also, what are some good alternatives to fishes for your diet?

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                        Edit: CW Don’t read if you don’t want descriptions of death of fish

                        Different ethical systems presume different things. That aside, I think the most universal thing is to minimise suffering. So it you’re going to fish, there are ways to minimise suffering of catch. It really depends your setup. But obviously the number one thing is do everything in your power to only catch things you will eat. Secondly, when you do catch something, don’t let it asyphixiate slowly to death. You can do a clean cut around the gill arches or the caudal artery. Which will hit the main veines and drop blood pressure to the brain really quick (very very quick death), this is also useful because then the fish bleeds out which prevents blood pooling in the meat from turning it rotten. Some people prefer to stun the fish before any cutting at all, so the first thing they will do, is hit something hard on the fish’s head which will immediately render it unconscious, then cut the arteries.

                        The whole asphyxiation to death is really the worst because it takes many many minutes and fish go through things like lungs collapsing and blood clotting which bring immense pain before being unconscious.

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                        • sunshine@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                          Can you ethically kill your dog when they want to live?

                          You can make fish alternatives with carrots, tofu, jackfruit, seitan, oyster king mushrooms, chickpeas, tempeh, anti choke.

                          https://proveg.com/uk/fish-alternatives-10-vegan-substitutes-to-fish-caviar-and-other-seafood/

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                          there is no evidence non-human animals understand personal mortality. we can't say they want to live, since there's no evidence they understand that they themselves are living or could die.

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                            The 2 trillion figure is the minimum: it could be more than 6 trillion every year, and the elephant in the room is that more than half of those are factory farmed - which means humans are responsible for torturing them their entire lives.

                            "for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka" - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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                            being farmed isn't torture.

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                              you can't kill ethically a fish, cow, pig, dog, etc.

                              sometimes there are "humane" times you have to kill, for some reason, another animal, because they are really suffering and it's impossible to bring them to health.
                              anything else, is unnecessary.

                              There are a lot of alternatives for a plant based diet, and being healthy, you have to be informed to know what to eat, and with which thing combine it (rice and beans, together, are a complete protein).
                              there is tofu, seitan, different types of grains and legumes that are protein complete or that you can complete between them

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                              you can’t kill ethically a fish, cow, pig, dog, etc.

                              i think it's amoral

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                                there is no evidence non-human animals understand personal mortality. we can't say they want to live, since there's no evidence they understand that they themselves are living or could die.

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                                Oh yes let’s ignore the fact that fish intentionally avoid being eaten in the ocean. I smell concern trolling, intentionally making false claims as if they were “the absolute truth.”

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                                  Edit: CW Don’t read if you don’t want descriptions of death of fish

                                  Different ethical systems presume different things. That aside, I think the most universal thing is to minimise suffering. So it you’re going to fish, there are ways to minimise suffering of catch. It really depends your setup. But obviously the number one thing is do everything in your power to only catch things you will eat. Secondly, when you do catch something, don’t let it asyphixiate slowly to death. You can do a clean cut around the gill arches or the caudal artery. Which will hit the main veines and drop blood pressure to the brain really quick (very very quick death), this is also useful because then the fish bleeds out which prevents blood pooling in the meat from turning it rotten. Some people prefer to stun the fish before any cutting at all, so the first thing they will do, is hit something hard on the fish’s head which will immediately render it unconscious, then cut the arteries.

                                  The whole asphyxiation to death is really the worst because it takes many many minutes and fish go through things like lungs collapsing and blood clotting which bring immense pain before being unconscious.

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                                  I think the most universal thing is to minimise suffering.

                                  that's just not true. the only ethical system i know of that holds this axiom is utilitarianism, and that is fraught with issues from epistemics to the fact it can be summarized "the ends justify the means"

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                                  • sunshine@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                                    Ah so stepping on kittens is the same thing as stepping on grass. Great logic…

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                                    this isn't what they said

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                                    • sunshine@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                                      Oh yes let’s ignore the fact that fish intentionally avoid being eaten in the ocean. I smell concern trolling, intentionally making false claims as if they were “the absolute truth.”

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                                      if you can point me to an animal behavioral-cognition study that shows any non-human animal understands personal mortality, i'd love to read it. all the studies i have found that get close to talking about it go out of their way to point out they don't have evidence of it.

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                                        you can’t kill ethically a fish, cow, pig, dog, etc.

                                        i think it's amoral

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                                        Just like it's amoral to kill ethically a dog and a cat.

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                                        • sunshine@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                                          Just like it's amoral to kill ethically a dog and a cat.

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                                          in most circumstances, probably.

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